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Release Type: Bug Fixes / Pi Release
Description: I really wished to have something cool for this release (it is the Pi release afterall), but it is merely a collection of some bug fixes.
The biggest fix is some defensive coding added to Builder to protect it against poorly-coded plugins. Often times, plugin authors will simply add their scripts to the entire WordPress back-end. Not only is this the wrong way to do things (scripts should only be added when needed), it can create script conflicts with other plugins or themes. While this fix can correct conflicts presented by many plugins, it was added due to a reported issue of Builder's Module settings pop-up boxes not working when the wpcu3er plugin is active. I've sent details to the developers of the plugin in the hopes that they will clean up some of the problems even though this version of Builder is no longer affected by them.
The other bug fix corrects a styling problem. Before this release, if you nested blockquote elements inside one another and used Builder's default styling, the nested blockquote would increase in size. This no longer happens.
- Thanks to David Heltemes for reporting the issue with the wpcu3er plugin in our support forum.
- Thanks to Justin Kopepasah for notifying me of the nested blockquote issue.
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Poet Ann Lauterbach discusses the work of John Ashbery, a hugely influential poet who has published over twenty books of poetry. His volumes include Some Trees, chosen by W. H. Auden for the Yale Younger Poet Series, and Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award.
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What to CookAmanda & Merrill
Clam Pan Roast
- Amanda
The pan roast, a model of ease, an emblem of the robust fare of old, is a favorite of mine. Most of the pan roasts I've had in my life have involved oysters, and fair enough, the oyster loves to be slathered in butter and laid upon a drift of toast. But it was time for the clam to get a chance at the pan roast.
James Beard's pan roast calls for 3/4 cup of butter to poach the oysters. You are welcome to take that route, but be ready to lie prone on the sofa afterward. I opted, instead, to steam open the clams with just a slick of butter in the pan to mingle with the clam juices, and later added a shot of cream with paprika, herbs, and the seasoning pinch hitter, Worcestershire sauce.
Clams Pan Roast
Serves 2 for lunch; 4 as a light first course
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 12 to 16 littleneck clams, scrubbed
- 1 scallion, thinly sliced
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1/8 teaspoon hot smoked paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon thyme
- 1/2 teaspoon parsley
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Measure would help New York prevent and prosecute sex traffickers, protect adult and child victims
The New York State Senate has passed the Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act to further protect trafficked children and other victims, and punish the criminals who are responsible for sexual exploitation. The bill (S2511), sponsored by Sen. Patrick M. Gallivan, improves and expands the state's ability to combat sex trafficking, punishes sex traffickers, and protects the rights of victims in the sex trafficking trade.
"Human trafficking, especially for the specific purpose of sexual prostitution, is becoming a global crisis, and one where New York state finds itself on the front lines," Gallivan said. "Bondage or servitude of any kind have no place in our society. This legislation will give law enforcement new tools to punish traffickers and new protections to the women and children they victimize."
The Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act would create a new crime of aggravated prostitution of a minor, recognizing the act of prostituting a child in the same fashion as the law currently recognizes the act of sexually assaulting or raping a child. The bill also increases a wide range of penalties on trafficking and soliciting sexual services, and classifies sex trafficking and compelling a prostitute as class B violent felonies. These measures increase the accountability of both the buyers and traffickers fueling the growth of this massive underground industry.
"Tragically, New York state is not alone in facing human trafficking and sexual exploitation, but we must do what we can to prevent it from continuing to destroy innocent lives," Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos said. "Sen. Gallivan's bill is an important step in preventing these horrendous crimes against women and children from continuing."
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General Practice, Solo & Small Firm DivisionBest of ABA Sections
Practical Approach to Due Diligence Planning
Patricia L. Brown
Are you checking everything that you should be when it comes to clients' life insurance purchases?
We estate planners consistently strive to improve our expertise by logging thousands of hours of formal education, but many of us are strangely simplistic when examining life insurance and related financial products. We start and stop at triple-A rated companies as determined by Standard & Poor's, Moody's, A.M. Best, and Duff & Phelps.
Although AAA ratings have proved to be inaccurate more than once, we continue to rely on this standard because, if for no other reason, clients are not going to pay us by the hour to examine the 2,000-plus life insurance companies in the United States on an individual basis. But, based on a couple of developments during the past year, we may need to reconsider how we choose the companies behind the products we recommend to our clients. What was once a slam dunk—AAA ratings—has now become a moving floor.
The first jolt to our traditional thinking was applied by the Department of Labor (DOL) in March 1995, when it issued ERISA Interpretive Bulletin (IB) 95-1, offering updated ground rules on the "prudent man rule." Although this ruling applies strictly to plan fiduciaries who select annuities providers that sell so-called termination or benefit distribution annuities, it isn't a far stretch to apply this rule to estate planning situations.
According to the DOL's IB, the following considerations are among those that fiduciaries must follow in making an analytical and thorough selection decision. These factors help comprise the department's view of the legal standard imposed on a plan fiduciary by ERISA section 404(a)(1)(A) and (B):
• Quality and diversification of the annuity provider's investment portfolio;
• Size of the insurer relative to the proposed contract;
• Level of the insurer's capital and surplus;
• Lines of business of the annuity provider and other indications of an insurer's exposure to liability;
• Structure of the annuity contract and guarantees supporting the annuities, such as the use of separate accounts; and
• Availability and extent of additional protection through state guaranty associations.
Minimal Requirements for Plan Fiduciaries. Compliance with ERISA's fiduciary rules, says DOL, minimally requires that plan fiduciaries conduct an objective, thorough, and analytical search for the purpose of identifying and selecting providers from which to purchase annuities. In conducting such a search, a fiduciary must evaluate a potential annuity provider's claims-paying ability because the participants and beneficiaries have a paramount interest in the ability of the provider to make those payments.
The fact is that ratings agencies are indeed useful, but top ratings do not guarantee success. Conversely, a look at any one of DOL's six considerations might have helped to identify problems with top-rated companies that failed before it was too late. Look at the DOL points again.
Quality and diversity of investments. Recall that Executive Life was heavily invested in junk bonds. When the market went south, the insurer was dragged down with the market.
Size relative to contract. One large contract, representing almost 10 percent of Mutual Benefit's liabilities, was surrendered before the company succumbed.
Capital and surplus levels. Fidelity Mutual didn't meet the test.
State guarantee protection. Exec-utive Life's municipal guaranteed investment contracts were not protected by guaranty funds.
So rating companies aren't perfect, but planners argue that they are the best resource that we have. Perhaps, but they shouldn't be our only resource. First, top ratings don't always translate into equally superior policy performance or satisfaction—two results we help our clients try to achieve. Second, large stock companies, with an inherent ability to increase equity, are typically favored over mutuals by raters. Yet, ask yourself, "Whom does the company favor?" Stock companies are in business to benefit their owner-stockholders. Mutual companies are owned by their policyowners. A mutual's owner and policy-owner are the same. No conflict here.
Finally, ask yourself what constitutes a top rating. I know some planners who recite "triple-A, triple-A" like some kind of mantra. Best's, the insurance industry's oldest rating company, doesn't even issue a triple-A. Is the top rating the only rating to consider when looking at insurance companies? Not according to the raters themselves. The top ten ratings from S&P, Moody's, and D&P and the top seven from Best's are considered secure/investment grade.
Another point made in the DOL's IB is worth considering when examining life insurance companies: The lines of business of the provider and other indications of an insurer's exposure to liability. Raters love not only size, but also diversity. Theoretically, diversity helps a company overcome the rough spots when one product line experiences problems, but there are two sides to this equation.
The companies that were hammered in the recent disability income (DI) insurance slaughter certainly are an advertisement for diversity. Many companies dropped this line altogether, while others drastically scaled back their DI offerings. Yet, other companies experienced only minor setbacks and continue as thriving DI specialists. How did these companies, not known for product diversity, survive and even thrive?
Another Due Diligence Tool. Although DOL's update offers solid advice, it doesn't tie up the information in a neat and easy-to-access package. But another development on the ratings front, almost as anonymous as the DOL update, may help. Most states have now adopted the risk-based capital (RBC) formula, adopted in 1993 by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. This is a nationwide solvency standard used by state regulators that actually addresses three of the six criteria noted in DOL's IB 95-1. The ratio ties together an insurer's investment risk and quality, capital and surplus, and lines of business and exposure. One problem, however: Insurers and their agents can't divulge their ratings or those of their competitors. Fortunately for estate planners, we can release this information, and it is not difficult to find.
Joseph Belth frequently explores ratings issues, including RBC, in his newsletter, Insurance Forum (812/876-6502). Four "action levels" are assigned to companies with ratings of 100 percent and below. I won't look for companies with ratios below 200 percent, although industry experts say a company at 150 percent is not necessarily in trouble. RBC ratios are simply the amount of capital a company needs, based on the risk profile of assets and liabilities, divided by the capital a company actually has. You can easily translate the ratio yourself from information in annual financial statements by dividing line 27 by line 28.
Human nature being what it is, we estate planners like to stay with proven methods. My argument is that proven methods, such as eliminating any insurance company without a top rating from consideration, may be quick, but far from foolproof. Remember, the courts have ruled that subjective good faith is not a defense to a charge of imprudence.
How should we satisfy our due diligence requirements? First, require more from our clients' insurance representatives. When they give us product information, are they comparing apples to oranges or similar products? I typically ask for a listing of any insurer's entire product line, after learning of one company with an amazing twenty-six different whole life products.
Look also at how an insurance product is illustrated. Ask the company to detail, in writing, exactly how its products' illustrations are created. A few companies detail their assumptions within the guidelines of the American Society of Chartered Life Underwriters and Chartered Financial Consultants Illustration Questionnaire. Ask for a copy of the completed IQ.
Finally, what if my client likes the agent, but I don't? I'll put my objections in writing because I never know when this might come back to haunt me. We can make recommendations, but we can't enforce them.
Look at all of the ratings. As part of the total due diligence process, they are useful. But remember, the most important barometer we can use is to ask the question, "Are this company and this product in the best interest of my client?"
Patricia L. Brown is the principal with the law firm of Patricia L. Brown & Associates in Las Vegas.
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Trends for Young CPAs: Report From the EDGE Conference
What are young CPAs most concerned about, how do they spend their time in their firms and businesses, and what do they need to do to enhance their career?
The answers to these questions and many more were heard and overheard during the 2nd Annual E.D.G.E. Conference, August 8-10 in Orlando, Florida. More than 150 young CPA professionals gathered to learn more about how they can make a long-lasting impact on their companies and within the profession.
Communications is a Top Priority
A major theme in this year's conference focused on interpersonal skills, including building relationships and the way young CPAs communicate with each other, their colleagues, employers, and clients.
For example, the first-day keynote speaker, Lonnie Stockwell, CPA.CITP, CGMA of Coaches@Work, discussed how the differences among generations are key to the way CPAs deliver services.
"You're missing out on opportunities if you are not mindful of the generations," he says. "For example, we know that Gen-Xers read only when mandatory and necessary, so as an accounting professional who works with other Gen-Xers in the office or in client relationships, you have to find other ways to communicate other than giving them something to read."
Perhaps you've heard the phrase, "doing business on the golf course." While many young CPAs may not have the time to play a round of golf, let alone even know even how to hold a golf club, Joan Pharr took this adage to a whole new level during her session, "Communications Skills and Working With Clients: Business Strategy Meets the Golf Course" and also emphasize the necessary of referrals and relationships during another one of her sessions, "Business Development for the New Manager."
Pharr, president of Blackman & Sloop, CPAs, P.A., believes rainmaking all boils down to building relationships.
"The hardest thing to do for anyone is to go out and cultivate new business," she says. "If you're not going to try to build business and form relationships in person, then don't do it!"
Leading With Integrity and Vision
In addition to an AICPA professional issues update, as well as tax and accounting and auditing sessions, several sessions of the conference focused on being a leader in your business and in the profession. Many of the attendees were graduates of the 2009-2011 Leadership Academies or candidates set for the 2012 class. Whether leadership qualities come naturally or whether they are learned, all attendees agreed that trying to be leaders is a trait and quality that is present in any profession, and the more you know about being a leader, the more you and your company will benefit for the long term.
Conducting two leadership sessions was Tamara Loerzel of ConvergenceCoaching, LLC, who covered "Being a Great Leader Today" and "How to Manage Conflict Successfully."
In the workplace, all of us encounter conflict in one way or another. Loerzel discussed the four types of personalities: the avoider, the accommodator, the confronter and the compromiser.
"What you want to surround yourself with—and try to achieve yourself—is the 'collaborator' because this type of person is a win-winner every time. Sometimes, however, conflict can be a good thing because it enhances morale, encourages compromise, and stimulates a feeling of team and morale."
Donny Shimamoto Receives the Maximo Mukelabai Award
As a member of the inaugural class of the AICPA Leadership Academy in 2009, Maximo Mukelabai was a great example of a committed and loyal member of the accounting profession. Among his many accomplishments, he was the youngest and first African-American chair for the North Carolina Association of CPAs Board of Directors. Tragically, his life ended abruptly at age 36.
As a tribute to honor Maximo, the AICPA created the Maximo Mukelabai Award for a deserving CPA under the age of 40 whose passion and contributions help build the CPA pipeline, serving as an advocate of the accounting profession and performing outstanding community service.
At this year's E.D.G.E. Conference, AICPA Chair Greg Anton, CPA, CGMA, presented the Maximo Mukelabai Award to Donny Shimamoto, CPA.CITP, CGMA. In giving Shimamoto the award, Anton referred to him as "a timeless advocate for the profession."
"You have to have the courage to take a risk—and that was what Max did," says Shimamoto, head of IntrapriseTechKnowlogies, LLC, and chair of the AICPA's Information Technology Executive Committee. "He and I would discuss ways we could change the profession. Today, we have a huge opportunity to preserve Max's legacy."
Make plans now to attend next year's E.D.G.E. Conference. Details will be announced very soon.


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DURHAM — Usually, a basketball player dreams about making game-winning free throws in a championship game. For Oyster River High School girls basketball freshman Sara Messler, the dream became a reality in her very first varsity game on Friday night.
Messler drained a pair of free throws with 2.4 seconds remaining to give the Bobcats a 42-40 win over Milford in the Division II season opener for both teams.
"I've taken thousands of free throws," Messler said. "I was just trying to stay composed and do my thing."
Messler finished with eight points as the Bobcats overcame a woeful first half offensively.
"I promoted her from a freshman to a sophomore at halftime," Oyster River coach Dave Nichols said with a laugh. "She may be a freshman, but she's a very solid player for us. Frankly, she's played better than this in every one of our preseason scrimmages."
The game featured 11 lead changes and was tied on nine occasions. The final tie came when Bobcat forward Claire Salmon stole an inbounds pass underneath the Spartan basket and hit a layup while drawing a foul. She missed the ensuing free throw but her bucket tied the game at 38-all with 23.3 seconds to play.
"I was just trying to be big and get it," Salmon said. "I was just trying to distract her, and it just hit my hand and I got it and went straight up for it."
It was another chapter in the mini rivalry between the two schools. Not only did Oyster River edge out Milford for the final playoff spot last year, the Spartans returned the favor, in a way, by beating the Bobcats in the Division II soccer semifinals this year. A number of players on both sides play both sports.
"The soccer girls really wanted to get our revenge, even though it's not the same sport," Salmon said. "It's the same school."
The second half redeemed a game that was sloppy on both sides in the first half. Milford led 5-3 after the first period and 15-13 at halftime. Oyster River's Jenny Mistretta (10 points) provided the Bobcats' only offense for the game's first 10 minutes with a pair of 3-pointers, one in each quarter.
"I told my assistant coach, 'Next year, let's be sure to play some scrimmages,'" said Nichols, rolling his eyes. "I think we played about eight. It was like we had never played together in that first half."
Oyster River's Claire McCarthy struggled on offense in the first half but found a little bit of a groove in the third quarter. She converted a 3-point play midway through the frame to give the Bobcats an 18-17 lead, then hit a reverse layup moments later to expand the home team's lead to 20-17.
McCarthy also drew a foul on a layup with 3:12 to go in the final stanza. Although she missed the free throw, Messler hustled for the rebound and scored on a putback to expand the Bobcats' lead to 36-32.
"It was a slow start in the first half," Messler said. "There was probably still some tension from last year. I think once (we were) in the second half, we realized someone had to win and someone had to take charge."
Milford responded with an 8-0 run and appeared to be in good position to win when Dina Pitsas (game-high 18 points) converted two free throws with 38.9 seconds to go, giving the Spartans a 40-36 lead.
"I think a game like this is going to teach us a lot of things," Milford coach Steve Signor said. "One, it's going to teach us how to close out a game, which we didn't do properly. Two, it's going to teach us that every possession matters. Sometimes we get complacent. (I) think they had fewer turnovers than we did, and that's a big thing."
Mistretta converted a pair of free throws with 25.1 seconds to go to cut the visitors' lead to 40-38, setting the stage for Salmon's heroics on the inbounds pass. She was fouled as she scored by Taylor Steinbrecher, ending her night with foul No. 5.
"Kids get nervous, especially when you open at home," Nichols said. "People think that's an advantage, but it some ways, that can be rough. When you're young and nervous and you have kids who haven't been out there before, you're better off on the road."
Oyster River will get that chance on Tuesday night when they travel to Pembroke.
Oyster River, 42-40
MILFORD (40) — White 0-1-1, A. Pitsas 2-2-7, D. Pitsas 5-8-18, Matthews 0-0-0, Phelps 0-0-0, Cleary 0-0-0, Ryan 2-0-4, Hoffman 1-0-2, Dupuis 2-0-5, Steinbrecher 1-0-3. Totals: 13-11-40.
OYSTER RIVER (42) — Kolter 1-2-5, Harris 1-0-2, Comeau 0-0-0, MacDonald 0-2-2, Miller 0-0-0, Attisano 0-1-1, Mistretta 3-2-10, Messler 3-2-8, McCarthy 3-1-7, Salmon 2-3-7, Drum 0-0-0. Totals: 13-13-42.
Milford (0-1) 5 10 13 12 — 40
Oyster River (1-0) 3 10 14 15 — 42
3-pointers: M-3 (A. Pitsas, Dupuis, Steinbrecher); O-3 (Kolter, Mistretta 2).


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Jen Yamato is a walking, popcorn-eating contradiction: she loves all kinds of cinema, from art films to schlocky B-movies...Read full profile
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Utterly disposable but diverting, MacGruber manages to spin feature-length product out of an idea that few would try expanding beyond a "Saturday Night Live" skit.
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Big-screen SNL skit explodes with crass humor, sex, blood.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that MacGruber is an action/comedy based on a series of Saturday Night Live sketches. During the transition to the big screen, the creators have added tons of foul language (everything from "f--k" to plays on the word "c--t"), extreme violence (including blood splatter and throats ripped out by hand) played for laughs, and sexual behavior that include some nude male bottoms and some graphic sexual noises. The movie also includes a good deal of gay humor, such as a brief kissing scene between two men played for laughs, and a couple scenes where MacGruber graphically propositions other men as a misguided bargaining tool. It's one of those movies whose goal is to make the audience laugh through increasing levels of shock, rather than actual jokes.
Messages: MacGruber is not meant to be a message movie -- it's filled with crass humor, sex jokes, constant profanity, and non-stop violence. But it's all a big joke, so viewers are not meant to take it seriously. Also, MacGruber is on the side of the good guys, even if his motives are mostly personal.
Role models: MacGruber is a flat-out terrible role model (though viewers would be hard-pressed to look to him as one). He exhibits endlessly stupid behavior, which is all part of his odd charm. He's not a team player, and often risks the lives of his teammates ahead of his own.
Violence: The movie is filled with gory violence, all played for humor. For example, MacGruber is an expert at ripping people's throats out, which he does, several times, with nothing left to the imagination. There are innumerable guns, bullets fired, and dead bodies. Blood is sprayed and smeared. There are explosions, with characters caught inside and burned. Vicki graphically digs a bullet out of MacGruber's thigh. A nuclear warhead is at the center of the plot.
Sex: The bottoms of two male characters are occasionally on display, and more than once with celery stalks sticking out. (The men are naked, but their genitals are not visible.) There are also two loud sex scenes, with no nudity (other than male hindquarters), but very graphic all the same. They involve graphic thrusting and language. Additionally, strong sexual language is heard throughout the movie, including a gay joke, reference to "date rape," and MacGruber telling an explicit story about a college girlfriend. An older woman who is posing as an artist's model is seen partly naked (one breast exposed), and some sexy pictures are seen on a wall.
Language: Extremely strong language is used throughout, starting with dozens of uses of "f--k" and "s--t," as well as "asshole," "dick," "vagina," "God," "Goddamn," "bastard," "retard," and "butt." Characters are seen extending the middle finger. Additionally, the villain played by Val Kilmer is named "Dieter Von Cunth," and characters get no end of enjoyment saying his last name again and again.
Consumerism: Stuck in the 1980s, MacGruber drives a Mazda Miata and listens to a Blaupunkt stereo (the latter of which is mentioned by name several times). Several mentions of Molsen beer, Coors Light appears in one shot, as does Tazo tea. There's also a reference to a product called an "incredi-mop," which doesn't appear to exist in real life.
Drinking, drugs and smoking: The heroes casually drink beer in one scene.
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Chef Rudy's soy sesame salmon
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Chef Rudy's soy sesame salmon
Chef Rudy Volpe is executive chef at Maryland Live! Casino
Serves: 4 guests
- 4 ea. salmon fillets, 6 oz., boneless and skinless
- 16 ea. shiitake mushrooms, stem removed and julienned
- 1 bunch cilantro, leaves picked
- 10 oz. sesame oil
- 4 oz. soy sauce
- Kosher salt to taste
- White pepper to taste
- Julienne mushrooms and set aside
- Pick cilantro leaves and set aside
- Season salmon fillets with salt and white pepper to your taste.
- Steam fillets (best method) or bake in 375-degree oven until cooked half through
- Heat sesame oil in sauce pan as salmon is cooking until smoke point
- Place salmon on serving plate, top with shiitake mushrooms and cilantro, liberally set
- Drizzle atop mushrooms and cilantro, over salmon approximately 1 oz. of soy sauce
- Carefully ladle 2 oz. of the very hot sesame oil over the mushrooms and cilantro. The mushrooms and cilantro should sizzle as they are drenched.
- Sit down and enjoy immediately!


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My old singer has taken a dive, repair is estimated at $100, it was a school model I bought 15 years ago and didn't pay much more for it. I am looking for a replacement machine now. Looking for your feedback... I am not looking for a general "sound out" for what machine you use.
Is there a preferred machine for sewing hammocks, tarps, TQ UQ and general hammock gear. What makes it a preferred machine? I want to know what are the features I should be looking for and what's not important.
Let's say you fell into a couple of bucks and where looking to go with a used machine.
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Collaboratively track your research with Bookmarks within cyn.in. The web is the greatest knowledge base ever created and bookmarks in cyn.in help teams to effectively use that knowledge base collaboratively by recording bookmarks into relevant cyn.in spaces. Like all other content in Cyn.in, bookmarks can be tagged, searched, discussed and shared securely within spaces. Links can be quickly shared among teams of users right from the browser by using the browser bookmarklet buttons.
Discussion Boards
Discussion boards in Cyn.in enable users to quick start a '1 to many' conversation and get quicker feedback and participation. Using Cyn.in discussions, employees can ask questions, find answers, provide opinions or brainstorm ideas freely. This potentially replaces email as the tool of choice for 1 to many and many to many communication as all discussions are threaded, searchable and organized centrally within spaces. Discussions provide a pan-organizational platform for emergent, open yet vital communication.
Image Galleries
Present and communicate better with Image Galleries in cyn.in. Store, annotate, catalogue and distribute digital assets like pictures, presentations, stock images, logos and graphics using Cyn.in image galleries. These images can be reused across the cyn.in site within wikis or blogs enabling consistent communication. Automatic thumb-nailing of images, slide show view, image transformation makes the Cyn.in image galleries a great tool to present and communicate thousands of words easily with pictures.
Audio Galleries
Audio libraries within Cyn.in enables teams to share audio content such as meeting recordings, training lectures, and other audio assets. MP3 audio files can be directly played from within the Cyn.in web browser or desktop interfaces making Cyn.in the most painless tool for simple audio broadcast and consumption. Cyn.in supports advanced podcasting, enabling users to create custom channels of audio feeds that can be automatically transferred to audio devices like the iPod and modern phones for offline listening.
Video Libraries
Enhance learning by publishing and broadcasting Video. Cyn.in provides for a Youtube like video sharing application that lets teams publish videos within spaces, and watch them directly in the web browser. This opening up newer avenues for effective communication, training and knowledge sharing using rich multimedia. Media from the Video Library can be also easily embedded into Wiki pages, Blog posts or Events.
Spaces form the basis of creating structured work areas within cyn.in.
Unlimited Collaboration Spaces
Harness collective knowledge of your business using wikis. Cyn.in's Enterprise class wiki system helps every member of your business or team to collaboratively create documents or departmental knowledge bases rapidly. Easy interlinking between documents help to create an organically growing and improving knowledge structure. Unlike most wikis, Cyn.in users do not have to learn a new formatting language in order to create beautifully formatted documents within the wiki, thanks to the easy to use WYSIWYG content editor.
Space specific workflows
Custom workflows can be assigned to a space, such that all applications and all content follow the space workflow. See Workflows for more details.
Selectable Applications within each Space
Permitted applications and content types can be enabled or disabled for any space by the owner or managers of the space.
Structured Sub Spaces
Spaces can be structured in a hierarchy that best reflects the organization or team using Cyn.in. Spaces can have n-number of sub-spaces structured below them, either inheriting the security permissions of the parent space or defining completely different access permissions. Structuring using spaces allow organizations of all sizes to tailor their Cyn.in site around their business requirements. Allowing users to create spaces makes the site structure organically grow or change based on changing needs of the teams. The main navigation of the system is automatically generated from the hierarchy of spaces.
Customizable Views
The views and dashboards appear as top level tabs for a space and can be customized or selectively disabled for any space.
Social Applications
Social Applications within cyn.in enable people to people interaction and increase team transparency.
Contextual Conversations Spaces
Any content, document, file or media within Cyn.in can be contextually discussed by everyone with access to the content. Contextual discussions or comments enable rapid creation of 'crowd knowledge' and form the basis of collaboration in Cyn.in. These conversations are stored forever creating a corporate memory that can be accessed, searched for and reused anytime. Comments in Cyn.in are threaded, enabling clean structuring of conversations. Participating in Cyn.in conversations is extremely quick and easy thanks to the fast ajax based commenting system on the web and instant discussions over the Cyn.in desktop.
Status Logs
Cyn.in allow users to add brief messages or updates to their profiles, that form a chronological status log for the user. Status logs provide a broadcast type of communication channel to each Cyn.in user, updating their peers about day-to-day workings & creating transparency towards business activity. Threaded discussions on status messages provide for 2 way communication and makes status messages a useful tool to interact about day to day activities.
People Directory
cyn.in's extensive user management features allow users to find people and expertise using the profile search and the people directory. A user can be a part of multiple groups and roles can be assigned to users and groups.
Crowd Rating & Voting
Just like contextual discussions, all content in Cyn.in can be rated as liked or disliked by Cyn.in users with access to the content. More liked content automatically get a higher rating and 'bubble up' in the activity streams. Ratings enable a democratic model of information filtering and knowledge creation. It also serves as a useful tool to gather feedback on ideas and aids decision making.
People Profiles & Infocards
Every Cyn.in user is provided with a profile page which along with the users basic contact / business information, also dynamically aggregates the user's activity and contributed content in a consolidated dashboard. The user profile provides insight to the user perspective and helps people to identify peers with required skills or common interests. A live mini profile also known as an 'Infocard' provides quick essential information about users and can be brought up by clicking on a users name anywhere within Cyn.in.
Productivity & Interfaces
Cyn.in's user interface experience is one of its greatest strengths and is designed to improve productivity of its users.
Customizable Dashboards
Dashboards for Cyn.in lets users create customizable dashboards for every space. Dashboards can be customized with portlets, Cyn.in comes with a plethora of portlets pre bundled including content aggregators, tag navigators, usage statistics and graphs, etc. Cyn.in dashboards are compatible with other Plone portlets and can be easily extended.
Filterable Activity Streams
Activity streams in Cyn.in provide essential updates to users from across all applications within Cyn.in in a concise view, chronologically or popularity sorted. Activity streams provide for easy commenting and rating of content items without the user having to leave the stream. Activity streams can be further filtered by simultaneous multiple parameters or facets, such as contributing users, content types, tags, date ranges and more. Filtered activity streams also provide dynamic RSS/Atom feeds that users can subscribe to for updates to their specific contexts
WYSIWYG Content Editor
Cyn.in incorporates a powerful editor to edit rich web content within wikis and blogs and works just like your desktop word processor software. Along with powerful WYSIWYG features like visual table creation, keyboard shortcuts and rich content formatting, the editor integrates tightly into Cyn.in, allowing visual searching and insertion of links and media from within Cyn.in. Keyboard shortcuts, quick access drawers, and a full screen mode makes the user experience highly productive. The editor auto saves all content to the server every minute, so you don't have to worry about loosing any content due to system crashes or power failures.
Email Notifications
Cyn.in provides an easy to use e-mail subscription feature that lets you subscribe to any content or a space with the click of a button. Anytime any other user updates the content an alert is sent to your email. When you subscribe to a space, all content or spaces under it automatically start sending alerts to you. Clicking the same button again un-subscribes you of the notifications.
Quick Adder
The Quick adder is always available at the top of every Cyn.in screen, and lets users quickly create content into any space of their choosing. While the new button lets users create any kind of content like wiki pages, videos, the discussion box goes a step further and lets users start a new conversation from right within the page without any postbacks.
Dynamic Feeds
Cyn.in comes built-in with extensive feed syndication capabilities that can be subscribed to by users to stay updated with relevant information or for integrating content from Cyn.in to other enterprise systems. Custom feeds can be simply created by applying filters to any view that lists the required content, Cyn.in automatically generates a dynamic feed of the filtered view. Cyn.in incorporates all major feed formats out of the box including RSS, Atom, Podcast / Vidcast standards and file enclosures. Cyn.in also provides comment feeds for each item, which helps micro tracking of important content.
Webdav Access
Cyn.in provides a standards compliant Web-DAV protocol based access to all content within Cyn.in. This allows desktop based direct access to files and content stored in Cyn.in and lets you bulk manage files directly from your desktop. Cyn.in Web-DAV can be directly accessed with Mac OSX and Linux computers and using a standards compliant Web-DAV client (e.g. Web drive) on Windows.
Organization & Management
Cyn.in provides powerful, enterprise class content management and organizational capabilities.
Cyn.in provides unified tagging of all content across applications. Tagging enables users to organize information within an organically growing structure. Powerful tag suggestion features let users reuse existing tags with ease. Multiple simultaneous tags can be used to filter content in all application views using the faceted filtering feature, this lets you drill down to relevant content of interest at blazing speeds. The Cyn.in dashboard also provides a tag cloud for direct access to popular tags.
Role Based Security
Comprehensive role based security and permissions system in cyn.in allows fine-grained access control for content to users and user groups. Roles can be assigned to users and user groups site wide, at space levels or for a single item of content.
Revision control
Complete version history of any content or file added into cyn.in is maintained within the system enabling visual tracking of who-did-what. Multiple authors can easily edit a single piece of content and be rest assured that their changes will not be lost. Revision handling is automatic and the version history management interface enables users to compare versions, preview pervious versions or switch to any older version. Version commenting creates a change log of the file or document.
Checkin / checkout of content
Cyn.in enables robust collaborative document authoring with content check-in and check-out. You can check out any content that you have editing rights to as a working copy. You can continue to modify the working copy while the published copy remains unchanged. On completion of changes, the working copy can be checked-in which replaces the published copy. Cyn.in also automatically merges the version history and change log once a content is checked back in.
Cyn.in contains a powerful, enterprise class rules engine that enables automation based on pre-defined triggers. Content rules can be defined by administrators and managers and can be applied to specific spaces, content types or workflow states. Content can be copied, moved, deleted or workflow transitioned based on different triggers. Rules can also be cascaded to allow complex automation of content.
Virtual Content Clipboard
Files, wiki pages, videos, spaces and all kinds of content and containers in Cyn.in can be cut, copied and pasted by users using the virtual content clipboard. Cut retains the properties of the items like author, published state, permissions etc. Copy on the other hand creates a new copy of the content item and assigns the person performing the action as the owner.
Cyn.in comes built-in with a workflow engine that is capable of n – level workflows that can be applied to any space or content type. Workflows are useful for applying a formal process to specific collaborative activities within your Cyn.in site. Cyn.in comes pre bundled with a few simple approval workflows, but complex business specific workflows can be developed easily with some programming skills.
Bulk Management
Cyn.in provides powerful bulk management capabilities to content managers, administrators and space owners. Using the content management view, you can bulk move, copy, paste, rename content from across applications. You can also import and export content in zip files. This cross application content perspective provides great flexibility to people managing large content repositories.
Content relationships
All content can be linked to each other in a bi-directional relationship easily with Cyn.in. You can assign relations to content across spaces and applications, e.g. an event in the calendar could have a wiki page, a video and a few files as related content. When anyone accesses any content, the related content as well as content that is relating to the current content (back relations) are automatically displayed to the user, enabling a smooth flow of navigation.
Scheduled Publishing & Expiry
All content within Cyn.in can be published and expired at predefined dates and time. Content scheduled to expire is automatically archived at the predefined time. Archived content is not available in search results and is only available to the administrator.
Auto Relationship & Link Integrity Maintenance
Cyn.in maintains integrity of relationships and content interlinking, no matter what the changes to the content are. e.g. A wiki page could link to a blog post and embed images from Cyn.in, The blog post and images can be freely renamed, edited or moved across spaces at any time. Cyn.in automatically compensates for the change of location and all linking, embedding or relationships of the wiki page is retained.
Search, Navigation & Retrieval
Cyn.in provides powerful search and navigation capabilities to aid users identify and access content the speediest way possible.
Multi Faceted Filtering
Faceted navigation and browsing allows you to narrow down a large list of items into a manageable size with multi-dimensional slice-n-dice mechanism in a manner that best accommodates your specific needs. Users can filter information with a combination of multiple facets including tags, contributors, date range and any content search phrase. Faceted search enables users to swiftly narrow down to the points of focus and eliminate content noise. Faceted filtering is available across all applications and views in Cyn.in.
Smart Collections
Smart collections are like saved searches with which, sets or lists of content can be created dynamically, based on various search criteria. Smart collections are a great way to create focus filters that all users of your Cyn.in site can use to quick access content. Collections can aggregate content from across different spaces and applications. Smart collections completely respect security definitions of each content, so each user will only see content within collections that he or she has access to.
Fast, Full Text Search Engine
Cyn.in's full text search engine, indexes content as soon as any new content is created or file is uploaded and makes them available in the search results. Textual information from within files of various known formats such as MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Open Office formats, Pdf, text, HTML and more are automatically indexed enabling users to search inside these files.
Mindmap based sitemap
Cyn.in automatically generates a sitemap from the content structure of the cyn.in site in the form of a mindmap. This mindmap gives users a visual overview of all the spaces and sub spaces available in the Cyn.in site and is an excellent way to quickly navigate across the space hierarchy and smart collections.
Quick Access Breadcrumbs
Cyn.in provides site structuring with nested spaces, and often for large organizations these structures could get deep. Cyn.in's quick access breadcrumbs not only provide direct links to all parent spaces of any location, it also provides a one click access to all application views within each space.
Automatic Backlinking
When a wiki page, blog post or any other rich content in Cyn.in links to another piece of content or file, or embeds media, a back link is automatically inserted into the linked file or embedded media. This helps in identifying content reuse and aids in fluid contextual navigation.
Customize & Extend
Cyn.in, being open and based on the Plone / Zope platform, allows unmatched freedom of extensibility.
Open Platform
Cyn.in is an open source software and distributed under the OSI approved GPLv3 license. A structured codebase and modular design enables easy extension and modification of the entire system. Utilizing the plugin model of the underlying Plone platform, developers can easily extend Cyn.in or implement Plone products directly into Cyn.in.
Brandable – Logo & Banner
The cyn.in site can be customized with your company's branding and logos. A customized site name, description and logo can be added by the administrator to your cyn.in site. Each space can have a customized banner with a welcome message for that space.
Custom Portlets for Dashboards
Space dashboards can be used to customize the content that members see first when they visit the space or site. HTML portlets allow simple addition of static or embedded content. Tag cloud, Space members, graphical statistics and top rated items are just some of the few portlets available in the space dashboard. Cyn.in dashboards can be further extend using compatible Plone portlets.
Cyn.in is based on open standards making it customizable and extensible to adopt your companies' systems and processes. Standard compliant API's allow integration with other key business applications. Cyn.in exposes an XML-RPC, REST and Jason based APIs for most application functions. Other standards based protocols such as Web-DAV, RSS, Atom, iCal etc are also included, providing a variety of integration points.
Technology Platform Features
Features of the platform and engines that make cyn.in tick.
Unified Software Appliance
Cyn.in is a comprehensive enterprise software, but is as easy to setup as an end user desktop software, as it comes prepackaged with everything required to run Cyn.in apart from the computer hardware and power supply! Cyn.in is a self contained software appliance and installs itself directly on a bare bone computer / server hardware or a virtual machine environment. This makes it easy to setup Cyn.in and it automatically provides for the most optimum environment to run the software.
Integrated Super Tuned OS
The Cyn.in appliance is a self contained software appliance that includes a fine tuned operating system based on Linux, customized and optimized for Cyn.in. The OS is supported and managed along with the core application for all customers. The integrated OS enables much greater uptimes and higher reliability.
Integrated OODB
Cyn.in integrates a high performance, next generation object oriented database (ZoDB) that's perfect for semi-structured and unstructured content, and is highly extensible.
Clustering Support
Cyn.in appliances can be clustered in various configurations, making it suitable for any kind of load. Clustering can be accomplished across CPU cores or physical machines. Cyn.in provides a plethora of configurations to fine tune the performance of clusters.


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Religious Worlds
This site offers information about religious traditions that developed in the Middle East or West Asia as well as others from South and East Asia, too.
Linked and locally-authored resources made available here for students in the academic study of religion are supplemented by authorized copies of two resources created by others:
(1) The Fondarosa, a mirror of the original site in Ottawa that contains the writings of Marc Fonda, a scholar in the field of Religious Studies; and
(2) the Shiva Shakti Mandalam, a mirror of a web site in England that is authored by Mike Magee and includes original artwork by Jan Bailey.
If you are a journalist, please consult religionsource and religionlink. If you simply are in a hurry, and do not like to be troubled by details, then see the Big Religion Chart or the CIA World Factbook. If you need a quick reflection of your own religious orientation, then try Belief-O-Matic.


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ABC's Last Resort is undoubtedly one of this TV season's boldest shows. But that also makes it one of the riskiest.
Fall Preview: Get scoop on all the must-watch new showsCo-created by The Shield 's Shawn Ryan and screenwriter Karl Gajdusek, Last Resort tells the story of Marcus Chaplin (Andre Braugher), the captain of the nuclear submarine the USS Colorado. When Chaplin and his executive officer Sam Kendal (Scott Speedman) question an order to fire warheads into Pakistan, their sub is fired upon by another American vessel, forcing them to take up residence on the French Polynesian island of Sainte Marina until they can piece together what happened and prove that they aren't traitors.But can the show sustain its high-action, serialized premise on a female-skewing network like ABC? The creators certainly think so. "We wanted to tell very emotional, epic stories," Ryan tells TVGuide.com. "That's why we ended up at ABC."Adds Gajdusek: "There's a perception with a big submarine that we may be a military show. [But] this is not a show about warfare in any way. This is a show about people in a time of conflict. ... We [dwell] in the realm of people living out their emotional lives in these extraordinary circumstances. We're an incredibly emotional show."
See photos of the Last Resort castAt the heart of the show is the relationship between Marcus and Sam, the latter of whom feels he owes an as-yet-unrevealed debt to the former. "In a lot of ways, the story of Last Resort is the story of these two men," Gajdusek says. "Sam feels loyalty and respect to his captain [and] will follow him, he thinks, to the ends of hell."But is Marcus a man who should be followed? Although he made the moral decision not to fire on innocents with only questionable orders in hand, he is also breaking a code of conduct many of his sailors believe in strongly. "Chaplin had never imagined a situation like the one he's in and he's being challenged in every way," Braugher says. "What happens when we're branded as renegades and terrorists is that we ultimately have to depend upon ourselves. There's no backup. There's no coordination. There are only 150 men and this submarine, and we're either hiding from or taking on the entire U.S. Navy."Adds Ryan: "He's a man stuck between principles because he does feel that he and the crew were wronged. He's determined to bring that to light. But in future episodes, he's going to have to make a choice between pushing to make things right and pushing maybe for what's the best thing for his crew."
Vote for your favorite new shows in our Fall TV Popularity ContestAlong the way, however, Sam and Marcus may not always see eye-to-eye. "The biggest drama we can have is to set up this relationship and then put them on either side [of a situation] and really watch them battle," Speedman says. "I think [Sam's] going to be forced into a leadership position. The leadership position is going to be against Marcus, and he's not going to want to do it. But for the good of the people and the good of the cause, I think he's going to have to."Also struggling with leadership issues is Lt. Grace Shepard (Daisy Betts), the daughter of an admiral who has earned a high rank even though she's relatively green. "She's struggling to find the correct and proper way to lead and to inspire others," Ryan says. "She's someone who has probably put a personal life in the backseat as she's pursued this. But she's someone I think audiences will root for. If there are times when there might be a disagreement between Sam and Marcus she's someone that might be able to come in and be the deciding vote."While their countrymen back home have written off the sailors as traitors, the crew of the Colorado won't exactly be welcomed with open arms by the people of Sainte Marina. But as they establish dominance, might the sailors fall into the same traps as their government?
Watch my show: Last Resort's Shawn Ryan and Karl Gajdusek answer our showrunner survey"They quickly realize that they are now the power," Gajdusek says. "One of the undisguised parts of our show is that power does corrupt. We don't see these as unchangeable people. Major characters can go very interesting places and be brought back again. So, we don't think that Marcus or our Sam are going to be only the perfect stalwart leaders of righteousness throughout our show."However, both Ryan and Gajdusek view their characters as heroes. "These men and women are patriots," Gajdusek says. "They're not fighting against America with a capital A. They are turned against an executive gone off the rails, if you will. A government that... has gone too far and done some things that are flat-out wrong. For us, that's a very fertile ground to explore what is really at the heart of ideas of patriotism and love of country and what are the dark sides of those same ideas."And, yeah, there will still be a lot of action. "The stakes are super high every single minute," Ryan promises. "There are people who want to kill them. There are people who want to discredit them every single minute of the show. I think the story going forward will only get bigger and wider in scope. This is a show with a canvas as big as the whole world. We could literally do scenes in almost any country on the globe."Last Resort premieres Thursday at 8/7c on ABC.


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VSGC Scholarship/Fellowship Opportunities!
In 1988, Congress enacted the NASA National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program to address scientific and technological workforce needs and the national decline in scholastic achievement, especially in math and science. NASA's Space Grant funds education, research, and public service programs in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico through a network of 52 university-based Space Grant Consortia with over 800 participating affiliates. The Space Grant Consortia is united by the common goal of developing the educational and economic benefits of aerospace research and exploration.
A major goal of the Virginia Space Grant Consortium (VSGC) is to help produce the engineers and scientists of the future. While opportunities
for careers in aerospace have expanded, the number of talented students pursuing
degrees in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has declined. To encourage talented individuals to pursue aerospace-related fields of study, the VSGC has established four Scholarship and Fellowship programs.
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pursuing higher education at Virginia Space Grant universities (College of
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A Funky Wedding Creation
Added Jul 10, 2012
by agnz
Tauranga, New Ze...
My own wedding dress, designed and constructed in 6 weeks for our special day.
I used a base pattern for the basic shape but designed my own bodice shape based on inspiration collected during the planning stage.
I wanted a funky lining so sourced white.black houndstooth fabric for the lining which I hand dyed blue, I also made my husbands tie from this houndstooth fabric. Tulle was layered over satin for the skirt with draped tulle on one side of the bodice and draped satin sweeping across the other, Finished with a low cut back and hand made fabric flowers. I also made my bouquet out of fabric flowers.
Material Notes
Snow white satin, white bridal tulle, houndstooth lining hand dyed blue.
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Jul 14, 2012, 09.02 AMby arriadney
using a contrast lining is a great idea the dress is beautiful
Jul 12, 2012, 10.10 AMby josii87
I love it! :) fantastic!!!
Jul 11, 2012, 09.00 PMby RedDynamica
Hats off! i think you did an amazing job!
Jul 11, 2012, 01.19 AMby shedoz213
Beautiful! The dress is amazing and you did an awesome job…loved the lining….!
Jul 10, 2012, 10.10 PMby Debs Brinklow
It looks lovely and really suits you. You've done a great job designing and constructing it, well done..x
Jul 10, 2012, 08.45 PMby joanfoley
wow… i love the dress. you look fab… congrats and good luck to both of you
Jul 10, 2012, 05.38 PMby tiramisusan
This is spectacularly fun and you look beautiful in it!
Jul 10, 2012, 05.07 PMby Jolands
Wow what a great dress. You look stunning! Great fit really well done. Bravo.
Jul 10, 2012, 12.03 PMby ctharp
Wow! You did an awesome job!! Beautiful design/ dress and all of it!
Jul 10, 2012, 10.34 AMby katensew
A lovely and unusual creation. I wish you happiness.
Jul 10, 2012, 10.27 AMby Mary Athey
just stunning. congrats on your wedding and you looked beautiful, i love your dress xxx
Jul 10, 2012, 08.31 AMby Ruffles Gazebo
this is pretty incredible! you must have had a fun day!
Jul 10, 2012, 08.14 AMby leokadia
a happy and long life together, I wish you God's blessing. Her dress is beautiful and the ostrich, very creative, he can not be made of textile old
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If you've spent time trying to analyze twitter data you undoubtedly have come across the topic problem.
The Problem
"What's this tweet about?"
"Are there other tweets that are related?"
Somewhere along the way, Twitter, it seems, decided the hashtag was enough to answer the above.
Hashtags are the wild west of naming conventions. Anyone can create or use one (and most people don't). Further, with a character limited tweet, proper tagging cuts into tweet content.
But as a user, I want to be able to find all tweets about a news story, an event, a book that was just released. Relying on Twitter users to manually add hashtags to do that is a fail whale of a different color.
The Solution
Why hasn't Twitter borrowed from Delicious – a service that finds the balance between the freedom and discovery of a folksonomy, and the clarity and utility of a taxonomy?
Why not auto suggest tags as someone generates the tweet? And these tags don't count against the character limit. And further, if someone doesn't select or create a tag, Twitter auto generates one (and designates it differently than a user generated/selected one).
Just as I can search for an @ so I can connect a person, making a # (or a new version of a tag) work the same way could make Twitter even more powerful — and make it more money.
A Consumer Use Case
Imagine I just watched top chef last week and I wanted to Tweet about a cheftestant. I start drafting my pithy tweet and auto suggested tags include: top chef, top chef season 8, top chef season 8 episode 7, top chef cheftestant smith.
Since I'm commenting on Cheftestant Smith about her performance in episode 7 of the current season, I select those two last tags.
Later, when a fan of Cheftestant Smith (or she herself), is searching for tweets, she doesn't have to use an @ people search on herself (and if she used twitter, the autosuggest would suggest her @ handle as well). But more useful, instead of relying on a #topchef tag, searching on top chef would bring up all the tags as discussed above, allowing a user to see more related tweets (rather than those hashtagged), less noise (created by NLP searches), and drill down (a certain episode, ingredient, etc of the episode).
But how does this make Twitter money?
The Business Case
1. Tag Bidding
2. Page Buying
3. Tag Structuring
Using the previous use case, imagine where Bravo can get value. First, they bid on auto suggest tags — they can help structure the conversation. And auto suggest will bring in both "paid" and "organic" tags to ensure the user still finds value in the tags.
Then, for each tag, a "page" can be registered/bought. When someone clicks a tag, they go to that page that aggregates the conversations, but also allows for custom content as well — sponsored links blossom into sponsored tags and pages.
Finally, organizations can created "tag structures." In the Iron Chef example, Bravo could create a taxonomy of tags, creating order and hierarchy around the folksonomy — show level tags, episode, etc.


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Hearty congratulations are in order in light of a big milestone that the Econsultancy blog team has reached, having for the first time surpassed 1m page impressions in a calendar month. Not bad for a niche B2B publishing operation!
That said, we don't create content simply to generate page views. The blog team contributes so much more to our business. I shall explain why.
A recent study found that only about a third of Fortune 500 companies maintain a blog, a statistic that I find perplexing, so I thought this might be a good time to remind ourselves – and you, dear reader – of why we blog, and what it's doing for us.
Some background
We launched the blog in 2006, after deciding to divert a limited PR budget towards the hiring of full-time writer. We thought that it would be better to create our own content, rather than paying PRs to try to persuade journalists to write about us. PR is tough, and pull beats push, for all sorts of reasons.
I'm of the view that in-house writers offer the best bang for your buck, and slowly but surely we expanded our team, to ramp up the amount of content we publish. They are Graham Charlton, David Moth, Matt Owen, Ben Davis and Christopher Ratcliff, and I salute them all.
It is worth pointing out that content comes in many different shapes and sizes. You need to know your audience, and create some editorial parameters for the team to adhere to. Exceeding 1m random page impressions can be relatively easy, but it is much harder to attract highly targeted traffic.
In short, we have found that it makes plenty of sense to invest in a team who are capable of creating laser-guided content, and to produce plenty of it.
The numbers
The proof...
The business case
Page impressions are great. They're a good metric and reflect growth, but there are four other equally (or more) important areas that are key to ROI.
This, for me, is the big one. 'Team Content' supports the company's search marketing goals in a number of ways. There are two main strands of attack.
Firstly, we research and target keyphrases that we want to rank for. There are many success stories that I could share with you, some more surprising than others. This always requires a bit of thought and firm commitment, but publishing lots of tactical content is my number one SEO tip.
Secondly, we habitually add internal links to our posts, which help prop up other pages on our site. If you do this in an organic – rather than automated – way, and mix things up a bit, you can achieve excellent results. A blog can help to strengthen the foundations of your website, from Google's perspective.
All of the above allows us to avoid retaining a search agency, or spending considerable sums of money on paid search every month. For example, at a cost of 25p per click we'd be spending around £70k a month to attract the same amount of search engine referrals. Big money.
So, from where I'm sitting a vast chunk of sales that originated via search engines should be attributed to Team Content.
Content underpins a lot of brand-related activity on the social platforms, which we use to distribute our articles and messages. We listen and chat too!
Many social platforms are free but you need people power to extract the best from them. We invested in this area by hiring Matt Owen, who is our Head Of Social. He spends a lot of time orchestrating and curating our content, while listening to heavy metal.
Social channels bring in a lot of traffic, although much of this is obscured in Google Analytics (filed under 'Direct'). We estimate around half of our blog traffic comes in via the likes of Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
It's also worth noting that blogging is inherently social too, and more so if you accept comments.
Brand metrics
One of the main reasons why I launched the blog was to soften the tone, as although we have 'consultancy' in our brand name we don't have a 'sharp suits' dress code and nor do we use big words when little ones will do.
The blog also allowed us to explore subjects close to our heart in a more casual way. Indeed, I'm thinking out loud as I type these words. Figuring out best practice in ecommerce and digital marketing is actually a lot of fun. And a blog allows us to have more fun, more often.
So, metrics like brand awareness, brand perception and propensity to buy can all be positively affected by blogging, which is really just a byword for producing shedloads of quality content.
The blog generates direct revenue in the form of display and email newsletter advertising, though that's a relatively small part of our business. It also attracts new subscribers, which is strategically more valuable to us than advertising revenue. We direct about 5% of blog readers to our product pages, which is where the really good stuff lives. Plus - as mentioned - we save money by not needing to hire SEO and PPC agencies, among other things.
Finally, it is worth pointing out that great content is like a gift that keeps on giving. We produce a good amount of evergreen content, which - unlike news - continues to pull in traffic from the search engines every month. It makes sense to create plenty of long-lasting content, to generate returns in perpetuity.
So the truth of the matter is that the blog has been generating ROI for years, and the 1m monthly page impressions is - all things considered - a kind of vanity metric. Not that there's anything wrong with vanity metrics!
Go team!
Is your business blogging, or otherwise increasing its investment into content creation (and curation)? Are you struggling to win a budget? Do leave a comment below...
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Great to see such transparency and a big well done to the editorial team. As an Econsultancy contributor I can say they are fantastic.
One area that I'd add is the community that has been built around their content. There's only a handful of places in the digital marketing space that can compete with you guys.
Congratulations! Great to hear the details of success stories like this one. I think Andrew makes a good point about community too, you have a strong community alongside the strong content which all helps the business to stay strong.
It's surprising to hear that only a third of Fortune 500 companies have blogs when you can see how well they work for some companies but maybe it's a bit industry specific as to whether or not a blog is seen as a worthwhile investment and even given the chance that this blog has been given. If more people posted about how worthwhile their blogs are perhaps others who haven't tried it yet might give it a go. I know we've blogged about how beneficial blogging is in the past - http://www.koozai.com/blog/search-marketing/why-i-dont-have-a-brand-new-lamborghini/
Hey Andrew / Anna - thanks for the good words. The truth of the matter is that our content is built around - and comes from - the community. That's the circle... the circle of life!
Here's the link to that research about a lack of blogging among Fortune 500 firms: http://www.umassd.edu/cmr/socialmediaresearch/2013fortune500/
Well done Team Content!
A case study in 'content marketing' if one was needed. The important point is about choosing to invest in content as opposed to other forms of marketing/advertising/PR as much as once might have been considered 'normal'.
Congratulations on reaching 1m page impressions which is not easy!! Content is key and has always has been. I've been closely following your success since you launched and your content is a great resource to digital marketing.
To boost your community further have you thought about running a scheme similar to the now defunct Adage Power 150, it would bring great SEO benefits and also raise the profile further of your brand globally within the digital space?
Just a thought
Wow, 1 million page views, congrats! Thanks for being so open in this article - particularly interesting to hear about the SEO advantages of content, and your focus on keyphrases.
Really interesting article. I like the fact that it was an article about how econsultancy is living and breathing the way they feel content should be done.
Definitely shows that with a relatively small team (and obviously encouraging guest writers) that you can drive high volumes of traffic to your site by writing about what people find interesting!
That is great news and as Ashley mentioned, a great case study on the power of content.
The community is key here and also it was achieved without just doing video marketing, something that a lot of people are saying is the ONLY way of doing content marketing online now.
Keep up the good work


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Mammoth agrees to $2 million a year for 23 years in MLLA case
Town leaders of Mammoth Lakes last night issued a clarion call for action by the town's citizens in the wake of its $29.5 million, 23-year settlement with Mammoth Lakes Land Acquisition (MLLA).
The call came from town councilmembers and Town Manager Dave Wilbrecht, who together face the prospect of paying off a $2 million annual payment over the next 23 years to end the breach of trust judgment against the town.
"There is no margin for error," Wilbrecht said before the start of a highly unusual town council meeting in the town offices.
"All we can do is lay out a plan," he said, "but the community really needs to be involved. This is going to affect services in some fashion or form."
According to a press release last week, among the ideas on the table are community volunteer efforts "in areas such as customer service, visitor services and neighborhood patrols."
Also on the table are more cuts to the town's workforce through the elimination of some positions.
The plan, such as it was presented at the meeting, calls for no new taxes, but the town said it wanted to float that possibility.
"The town will pursue efforts to raise funds to prepay the MLLA obligation through borrowing, and will work with both institutional and individual investors," the town said in a press release.
The settlement does not call for any new taxes.
"However, the town expects to engage the community in a discussion of whether a new tax should be raised with voter approval, to help pay off the settlement early."
One of the variations on the tax idea is in the creation of a "business improvement district," or a BID. Tourism director John Urdi has pushed for a consideration of the idea, specifically to prop up guaranteed airline subsidies at Mammoth-Yosemite Airport.
However, Urdi said he has not found any solid footing for the idea as yet.
"The BID is still TBD," he quipped at an Airport Commission meeting Tuesday afternoon.
Urdi's idea is to add 0.5 percent surcharge, or fifty cents for every $100 spent, on most transactions, such as lodging, food and retail products.
He said such a surcharge would be mostly paid for by visitors—added to the bill they got for their meal or their room—but local residents would also contribute toward the fund, whenever they spent money within the borders of the BID.
It's similar to the more familiar "resort fee," he said, except this surcharge would be targeted only toward maintaining year-round air service.
Otherwise, the money to pay for the settlement will have to be in the form of cuts, town officials say.
If there is a silver lining in any of this, it is that in bad snow years, such as last year, partial prepayments are allowed, as low as $250,000 in any given year.
Where the cuts will come from ultimately was anyone's guess on Thursday evening. Although the town agreed on a settlement on Friday, Sept. 21, the town did not put forth a payment plan at the time. Wilbrecht said he and the Town Council wanted to listen to the citizens first.
As residents last night filed into the council chambers in Suite Z of the town offices, nothing was set in stone, Wilbrecht said.
Everything was on the table, including a plea for steely direction from the citizens themselves.
"We're trying instill a sense of discipline," Wilbrecht said before the meeting began.
Wilbrecht said he could not predict what would happen as a result of the forum, but he said he anticipated the council would wrestle with a payment plan over the next weeks and months, with a restructuring plan to go into effect this coming Jan. 1.
As to the immediate effects of the cuts, Wilbrecht said he could not say, either in short-term effects or long-term effects.
The process, he said, might very well include the creation of a blue-ribbon panel of "interested parties" to help the council make the tough decisions.
In a the lengthy, Jan. 21 press release, the town said that during the next few weeks, the town plans to meet with its employee groups to discuss ways to dramatically restructure its operations and provision of services.
"This will be a part of an effort to move to an innovative and collaborative model that reduces costs, engages other governmental agencies, volunteers, local nonprofits, and the private sector," the press release stated.
"The town's plan includes talking to employee groups and evaluating the following options:
- Contracting out some of its services, to other governmental entities, nonprofits and/or the private sector.
- In collaboration with neighboring entities, such as the school district, the hospital, the fire district, ESTA, Mono and Inyo counties, exploring opportunities to create economies of scale in the provision of common services, through formation of a Joint Powers Authority (a JPA, similar to ESTA).
- Creating opportunities for the public to be more involved in government by establishing a far-reaching volunteer program, with opportunities in areas such as customer service, visitor services and neighborhood patrols.
"The town's restructuring plan may necessitate elimination of some town positions.
"The town will meet and confer with its employee groups, and those groups will be invited and encouraged to participate in a competitive process to bid on providing the various services and functions that the town will be considering for outsourcing, including those that may be provided through a JPA.
"The town's desire is to begin implementing suitable portions of the plan by Jan. 1.
Among the areas that are wide open are how many employees the town really needs, particularly in the public safety (police) sector.
Whichever way the town goes, it insists it is better than facing bankruptcy, for which it filed for eligibility last July.
"The more the town has learned about Chapter 9 bankruptcy and strengths and weaknesses of our particular case," town officials wrote in their press release, "the more evident the risks and costs became.
"There was a possibility that the bankruptcy judge would find the town ineligible for Chapter 9 relief, or would not approve our proposed debt-restructuring plan. It became clear that the town would be required to increase financial support for its litigation efforts in order to try to win eligibility and plan confirmation."
"These increases were estimated between $2.5 million and $5 million. Without a massive cash infusion (and, quite possibly, even after spending additional millions), there was a strong potential for a dismissal of the town's bankruptcy case by the bankruptcy judge.
"This would immediately make the town subject to the $43 million state court writ, ordering the town to pay the $43 million immediately, or request a 10-year payment term (resulting in approximately $6 million annual payments for 10 years, after applying the seven percent interest set by California State law). The town simply cannot afford to pay $43 million immediately or $6 million annually.
"A prolonged legal battle with MLLA and other major creditors was anticipated in the bankruptcy court.
"Such a battle would require spending millions of dollars in legal fees, with a very uncertain outcome as to the eventual payment to MLLA.
"Even if the town eventually received the U.S. Bankruptcy Judge's approval of its debt adjustment plan, a payment to MLLA under that plan would likely be similar to the $29.5 million negotiated under this settlement. And even then, the Judge's decisions could have been appealed by MLLA and others, resulting in yet more litigation and additional cost."


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The pianist Polly Ferman, a specialist in tango and South American music, is performing a solo recital at UMSL's Touhill Performing Arts Center this Saturday night, 10/6/12, at 8 PM. I will be interviewing her this coming Saturday on my show, around 12 noon. She'll be bringing her recordings. This is her only radio interview in St. Louis before her concert. Some videos of her performances are here, here, and here.
(PS: Yes, there is a certain irony that Wash. U.'s radio station is featuring an interview with an artist performing at UMSL.)